Preliminary results of the Prize "Golden Phone - 2009" Preliminary results of the online prize "Golden Phone - 2009", the start of "popular vote" is held on December 15. Less than a month their votes in 10 categories gave about 9 thousand people.

Like last year, the main contenders in the category "Operator of the Year"   developed between MTS (26%) and "MegaFon" (22%). "Beeline" in third place with 21 percent of votes.

Leader among the retailers   more evident - is a network of "The Messenger" with 28%, from which the "Euroset" is currently lagging behind by 6%.

Three leaders in the category "Brand of the Year"   predictably occupied by last year's winner Nokia (24%), the Taiwanese company HTC, which should be called a breakthrough year (21%) and Samsung (17%). Interestingly, compared to the previous year the proportion of votes Nokia declined by more than 15 percent, while Apple and Sony Ericsson are not included in the top three.

In choise Phone optimal ratio "price-quality"   confidently committed to winning a major bestseller in 2009 - Star S5230 model from Samsung (25% with a margin from the second position by 8%). 26% of the votes given for both the Nokia X6 "The best music device" . But in the category "Best Design"   things are not so simple - the difference between the first (LG BL40 New Chocolate) and second (Nokia 6700 Classic) is only 2 percent.

The highest interest earned Sony Ericsson Satio nomination "The best camera phone '   and the Nokia 1661 include fiscal devices - Both at 36%, when their opponents liked no more than 20 percent of the vote.

"The best hi-tech-device"   According to its users recognized multimedia monster HD2 from HTC.

The same HD2 leading in the main category - "The best phone of the year." Surprisingly, but, again, according to preliminary results of the "popular vote" - deserved. In second place with a margin of one percent of the product of the same company, but is not based on Windows Mobile, but on Android - HTC Hero. The only devices that somehow compete with smartphones from HTC, - it is Nokia N97, Samsung S5230, Sony Ericsson Satio and the Samsung i8910, which is an active users selected as "their options."


Voting will continue for almost three weeks, and the positions of the participants, of course, subject to change. You can vote for your favorite model of the company and on the website of the Prize


Information support to the Prize "Golden Phone - 2009" provides:

- 3DNews Daily Digital Digest   - Russia's first independent online edition to deal with information technologies. Founded July 17, 1997. Every day the site is visited by more than 100 thousand. Readers interested in the timely information of the computer market.

- Helpix.ru   - Unbiased opinion about mobile phones.

- Portal HPC.ru : All of the communicators, GPS-navigator, smartphones and netbooks: news, reviews, catalog models, programs, forums. Mission HPC.ru 1998 remains the same: the popularization of mobile technology in Russia. The audience of the project amounts to more than half a million Russian users.

- iTRate.ru   - Information-analytical resource dedicated to retail, distributor and IT-services market in Russia. Ratings and testing of computer stores, daily news, analysis, advice.

- " Ruformator "- News of the Internet and technology.

- Socially news network SMI2.ru

- News agency "Internews"

- Women's magazine myJane